Product Description:

• faasenra is a medicine containing the active substance benralizumab, monoclonal antibody, type of protein that recognizes and attaches to specific target substance in the body.


• The target of benralizumab is a protein called interleukin-5 receptor, which is found particularly on a type of white blood cell called an eosinophil.


• fasenra is used to treat severe eosinophilic asthma in adults.


• Eosinophilic asthma is a type of asthma where patients have too many eosinophils in the blood or lungs.


• fasenra is used together with other medicines to treat asthma (high doses of corticosteroid inhalers plus other asthma medicines) when the disease is not well controlled by those other.


• what are the benefits of using fasenra; fasenra may reduce the number of asthma attacks you are experiencing, help you breathe better and decrease your asthma symptoms.


• If you are taking medicines called ‘oral corticosteroids’, using FASENRA may also allow you to reduce the daily dose or stop the oral corticosteroids you need to control your asthma


• what fasenra is used for fasenra is used to treat severe eosinophilic asthmatic adults.


• fasenra may reduce the number of asthma attacks you are experiencing, help you breathe better and decrease your asthma symptoms.

How To Use:

• It always use this medicine exactly as your doctor has told you.


• Check with your doctor, nurse or pharmacist if you are not sure.


• Fasenra is given as an injection just under the skin (subcutaneously).


• The recommended dose is an injection of 30 mg.


• The first 3 injections are every 4 weeks after this, injections are 30 mg every 8 weeks.

How To Store:

• Fasenra keep this medicine out of the sight and reach of children.


• Do not use this medicine after the expiry date which is stated on the label.


• The expiry date refers to the last day of that month.


• Store in the original package to protect from light.


• Store in a refrigerator (2°c to 8°c).


• Fasenra may be kept at room temperature up to 25ocfor a maximum of 14 days.


• After removal from the refrigerator, fasenra must be used within 14 days or discarded.


• Do not shake, freeze or expose to heat.

Ingredients:

• Benralizumab